Counterexamples to maximal regularity for operators in divergence form

Journal Article (2024)
Author(s)

Sebastian Bechtel (TU Delft - Analysis)

Connor Mooney (University of California)

Mark Veraar (TU Delft - Analysis)

DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-024-02014-9 Final published version
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Issue number
2
Volume number
123
Pages (from-to)
199-209
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Abstract

In this paper, we present counterexamples to maximal Lp-regularity for a parabolic PDE. The example is a second-order operator in divergence form with space and time-dependent coefficients. It is well-known from Lions’ theory that such operators admit maximal L2-regularity on H-1 under a coercivity condition on the coefficients, and without any regularity conditions in time and space. We show that in general one cannot expect maximal Lp-regularity on H-1(Rd) or L2-regularity on L2(Rd).